Apocalypse was visibly scared.

This is also normal.

After all, he is a fifteen-year-old boy, and many civil servants still shout that the emperor is too young to be in power, and he should find a civil official to watch him! Originally, in history, he hibernated for more than a year and supported Wei Zhongxian, so he started from the palace and took revenge from the inside out, but now he has only succeeded to the throne for a total of one month! Suddenly encountered this kind of siege that can be said to be stormy, he was frightened and a little panicked, and it was normal for his hands and feet to be a little flustered, when Yang Xin didn't come back, Yanguan was blocked outside every day, he didn't dare to give an order to arrest them, and he didn't dare to face them, so he could only hide in the palace and not show up......

Fortunately, there is also Wei Zhongxian.

Nine thousand years old, with the help of Lu Shou, the original palm print, and Liu Shimin, the old fritter who did things, quickly took over for him and suppressed the celebrant supervisor.

And Fang Congzhe, a pastemaker, although he has no courage at all, he is still useful after being the first assistant for all these years, and he and those neutral Shangshu maintain the normalcy of the imperial court.

But these people can't really solve the fear of the apocalypse, because they don't have the ability or courage to solve the problem by force.

Nine thousand years old is powerless.

Fang Congzhe has this ability, but he doesn't have this kind of guts.

Or maybe he's too selfish.

He is afraid that he will be unlucky after making a big fuss, he is accustomed to protecting himself, and his suspicion of killing the monarch has not been cleared so far, although this matter was done by the Donglin Party, but the little emperor committed murder by Yang, which has aroused the unanimous disgust of all civil officials and even nobles and even gentry everywhere. Fang Congzhe didn't want to become the target of the public, if he really helped the little emperor suppress the scholars, then he would become a complete traitor, he didn't want his family to be spurned by the gentry in the future, in short, he was a person who maintained order, but it was impossible to expect him to use a knife.

Only Yang Xin.

Only Yang Xin can cut through the mess so quickly and solve everything for the apocalypse in the blink of an eye.

But Yang Xin is just one person after all.

What Tianqi needs to face is the unanimous siege of the entire imperial ruling class, the impeachment of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, the secret music of the Nanjing garrison eunuchs, and the angry twists and turns of the governors in various places, like a basin of cold water poured on his head, so that he can sober up and let him see that in front of him is not only the dozens of imperial histories outside the Qianqing Gate, but also the thousands of scholars outside the Chengtian Gate.

He had to deal with the clique of civil servants and gentry throughout the empire.

He's going to be the emperor.

He wasn't a loner.

So he could only symbolically punish Yang Xin and appease these already angry civil officials and gentry.

He was an emperor after all.

"Your Majesty, you can really make the decision that an emperor should do, the ministers are very pleased, but it is useless, because what they want is for you to be afraid and retreat, once you retreat, they will go in once, you will endure once, and they will put a rope on you.

In the end, it gets tighter and tighter.

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty is the result of successive emperors retreating again and again.

What is the most important thing for a monarch?

It is to maintain checks and balances, and to maintain that no one can be dominant, and the result of any dominance is that the emperor's power is hollowed out.

Taizu understands checks and balances, and created a pattern of equal emphasis on civil and military affairs in the Ming Dynasty, with military generals to civil ministers, military households to gentry, mutual checks and balances, power always belongs to Taizu, those civil ministers and gentry can only arrange Taizu behind their backs, but they dare not blow up in front of Taizu.

Taizu will peel them and grass them.

The military household will faithfully carry out any of Taizu's wills

When Chengzu was a little unable to sustain it, he began to increase the power of his ministers and Jinyiwei as a supplement to the monarch's power, but after Tumubao, the military generals and nobles were almost wiped out, and the civil official group led by Yu Qian completely overwhelmed the generals by supporting Daizong.

The checks and balances created by Taizu completely collapsed.

The emperors of the past dynasties could only rely on the internal officials and the Jinyi guards to maintain power, but compared with the Wenchen who was backed by the gentry of the world, he was only barely parryed, and even retreated one after another. But he didn't dare to move the interests of the entire Wenchen group, don't forget that he almost died once, the civil officials bribed a few people in the palace, and it was not difficult to attack the emperor or add something to the medicine, why didn't Emperor Daxing dare to let the emperor take medicine?

Is Emperor Wuzong's death really that simple?

At this time, the emperor had actually lost to Wenchen, and he only relied on Emperor Sejong to maintain it.

But Emperor Shenzong did not have the talent of Emperor Sejong.

He knows that, too.

In the end, after realizing that he couldn't change anything, he finally chose a way that was very irresponsible to future generations.

He chose to throw in the towel.

Then when it is Your Majesty's turn, you can only face this helpless situation. ”

Yang Xin said.

He has to educate the little emperor well.

"How?"

Apocalypse said.

He will not be willing to be stuck in the palace for the rest of his life like Wanli.

"A big prison."

Yang Xin said.

"Whether it is a civil official or a gentry, it seems to be vicious, but in fact it is a paper tiger, and they are usually the most afraid of death, because they all have families and businesses, enjoy wealth and glory, and when they die, there is nothing.

Especially since they are afraid of raiding their homes.

Li Sancai did not hesitate to exchange his life with me, just to avoid raiding his family.

It's not a big deal to just kill themselves, but it's the most feared thing to completely destroy their children and grandchildren.

Therefore, Taizu has repeatedly been imprisoned.

This works best.

Didn't the southern gentry make trouble this time?

Then continue to provoke them, let them make trouble, and then the ministers will cut off the heads of the gentry for His Majesty, copy their hundred and ten families, and exile all their families to Qiongzhou to open up the wasteland, so that all the gentry can be honest at once. Deter them first, and then gradually implement some reforms, so that these gentry and rich businessmen pay taxes, and a Li family will be rich and rival the country, how much silver is in the hands of the gentry in the world? As long as the tax revenue is sufficient, it is to retrain the new-style army, according to Qi Jiguang's training, His Majesty also saw the combat effectiveness of the Zhejiang army, and it was not the Qi family army at its peak.

As long as the hundreds of thousands of troops on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty are all like this, Jiannu is a joke.

There is also silver for disaster relief.

Wherever there is a famine, they will give relief, and the common people will not rebel if they have enough to eat, on the contrary, the common people will definitely rebel if they do not have enough to eat, and while giving alms, they will promote new crops, build water conservancy, and increase the area of cultivated land and grain production.

There is an invincible army outside.

Inside, the people who eat and don't have to worry about rebellion are the people.

There is peace and prosperity. ”

He went on to say.

To put it bluntly, he just wants the apocalypse to go down the path of this tyrant.

In fact, he knows very well that the apocalypse is no match for the gentry, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is not something that an emperor can change, and if the Ming Dynasty wants to really change, what is needed is another way, but the current Yang Xin does not have the ability to take this road. It's not that he can't go, but he can't be surrounded by external enemies, and the internal Tusi rebellion is imminent, especially when a natural disaster is about to come, the ability to take this road at the smallest possible cost is a sea of blood.

So he had to take advantage of the apocalypse first.

Using the Apocalypse to fight against the Wenchen gentry group, he cultivated his own power while changing the country as much as possible while acting as a minion.

As for the final ......

In the end, what to do has been demonstrated by many predecessors.

"But what if they block the traffic?"

Apocalypse said.

Apparently he still had some concerns.

"Then kill again, Your Majesty, please believe in the minister, for these people, there is only a question of killing more and killing less, but there is absolutely no problem of killing or disobeying them, the poor people have a rotten life, I don't care, but their lives are very expensive!"

Yang Xin sneered.

"Then copy Li Sancai's house next?"

Apocalypse said.

"Raid the house, the minister has a way to make him confess, at most His Majesty is an old minister of the Divine Sect with his old age, not cutting off his head is just giving death, his son is beheaded, his family is exiled, Jinyiwei set up a prison in Qiongzhou Mansion, let them reclaim the land there, and the women and children will not be punished, and they will go back to their parents' homes. The slave and maid gave back the good book, all the family property was confiscated, the shops, the field property and the like were auctioned, it is estimated that his family property plus the minister brought it this time, it is enough to build the three major halls.

Xiong Tingbi's income from the household department is enough to maintain.

At the same time as repairing the three major halls, a part of this money was allowed to be given to Xu Zhan to train the new army, but this new army was not subordinate to the three major battalions and was directly under the command of His Majesty. ”

Yang Xin said.

Since it is a provocation, of course, it is necessary to copy Li Sancai's house, and the rest of Yang Lian can continue to be locked up, after all, they have no connection with the Wang family, and they are locked up in the edict prison, which is easier to give the Jiangnan gentry a reason to rescue, after all, there is no need to toss if they are dead.

It is enough to kill Li Sancai's father and son.

"Is your army of also training with you?"

Apocalypse said.

"That's not needed, these people have rebelled after all, and the minister just wants them to dig the river to atone for their sins, if they really want to be trained by the new army, they still can't rest assured, and when they finish digging the river, just let them farm in that area." There is no need to keep the establishment of the Dangkou army, it is an expedient measure, even if they are workers hired by the minister, they just need manpower to build ships and cast cannons, if there is really a sea raid, it is enough for the minister to straighten out the coastal defense battalion. ”

Yang Xin said.

He didn't want Apocalypse to think too much.

Besides, even if these people are people, they are still his domestic slaves, and they usually continue to carry out this kind of strict discipline training, militarize the establishment, and then guard the private arsenal, and they will use it if they have nothing to do as workers. In fact, the arms companies that test weapons usually know more about weapons than soldiers, as long as every batch of guns is handed over to them for trial, and in the end they are definitely sharpshooters. In this way, when it is necessary to fight, just take out the weapons from the warehouse and divide them, and in the blink of an eye an army is established, as for the use of cold weapons, it is not worth mentioning, who does not have a bunch of thugs in the landlord's family these years.